Mini-courses are three-day classes of your choice that range in subject from science to art to history. Mini-courses are usually the week before Spring Break. There were ten different options for mini-courses this year: “ART + Chemistry = Alchemy” “Our Fightin’ Phils” “72-Hour Film Festival” (link to short films: “Kids with Superpowers,” “Taken by the Dark,” and “Lost and Found” are by FCS students) “WFCS: Phoenix Radio” (link to station site) “FCS Idol” “Survivor” “Celtic Designs” “The Arctic” “Lincoln’s Assassination” “Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy and Physiology” In this brief review I will outline three of these mini-courses: ART + Chemistry = Alchemy In the alchemy mini-course, students focused on food chemistry and how different foods are made and composed chemically. On the second day, this mini-course took a trip to the Old Rittenhouse Village and made paper and pancakes. (Source: Hugh Braham) Lincoln’s Assassination In this mini-course, students watched videos on the assassination and looked at some of…